Have you considered checking your privilege and/or remaining informed about current events even if you think they don't impact you personally (but definitely do, as well as everyone else around you)?
I've heard of those, but while I can see adblock working, if me just clicking "decline all" doesn't actually decline the so called legitimate interests, I don't quite trust that an extension doing it will, so for now I'd rather still make the call of whether I trust a site myself..
They already had loads of international news coverage for the airbnb ban, and I guarantee they would have gotten significantly more had they, again, simply targeted the people responsible, rather than those who have zero power to do anything abut it (because again - they aren't even just random locals, they are people who having already paid for their time there and contributed to the problem, and who are unlikely to return, not regularly anyway, and have zero impact on local politics).
Getting you to notice isn't impact, you are irrelevant to the people who have the power over their situation.
Like I said, I don't criticise anyone for using the service, and the more affordable it is, the better, but trust that they are definitely not working at a loss, in the same way supermarkets, that would probably still charge less for the same items, do - by making you believe they're selling to you at just about what it costs them to get by, when they are selling it to you for significantly more.
Except they're selling you the kit at waaaay over cost in the first place, so they're still making money off of you. I promise you they are aware of the "glitch", and are not ignoring it out of the kindness of their hearts.
(not criticising you for using the service, if it works for you go for it and get those discounts, but don't let them manipulate you in to thinking you've got one over on them, they 100% account for this kind of thing and are still making money)
Eh, Iâd love to visit Barcelona, but I wonât until they figure out how to make tourism work without causing the city to be unlivable for locals.
Good for you (sincerely), but it wasn't the water pistols that led you to that conclusion, was it?
Tourism and prioritizing tourism isnât good for locals in many ways
Absolutely, but until the negative impacts hit those raking in all the money, and not just the working class people on the front lines dealing with the consequences, nothing will change. Which again, is why the protestors targeting the tourists, and not those profiting from them, is ineffective.
As for being a better tourist, I'm no authority, especially since I've not been one for many years, but reading up on local attitudes and complaints about tourists would probably be a good place to start and learn what to avoid, and go from there..
The "legitimate interests" are only legitimate for their and their advertisers data collecting, not your experience (never mind privacy and security). It's just a scummy workaround to avoid regulation.
Even so called "necessary" cookies are often bloated with shit that isn't really necessary (and often leave out necessary functions from where they belong and include them in a separate "functionality" category, where they can pile on extra trackers, especially social media ones).
The worst part is, that some "decline all" don't decline these so called legitimate trackers, so I double check to make sure they are all deselected (sometimes it's an "object to legitimate interests" other times you have to click through to the list and deselect them manually. If it's one of the latter and it won't let me deselect all at once, I leave the site. There isn't any piece of information worth unticking hundreds of boxes for). (ETA: I've found that one of the worst offenders of this is fandom wiki sites, which is where breezewiki comes in and saves the day! If their search function doesn't find what you're looking for, try looking for the fandom you're after + breezewiki on your search engine of choice and if it exists, it will come up)
Never trust companies to have anything but their own interests in mind.
Itâs fucking shitty and serves no greater purpose.
Of course it serves a greater purpose, in the eyes of those who are in favour of it, otherwise they wouldn't want to keep/extend it.
Keeping women and girls in subservient vulnerable positions, and men satisfied and in positions of power (even if it's only within their own home, where they get to then take their rage and frustration at having no real power elsewhere out on their wives and children), is what the patriarchy is all about.
It also serve capitalism, in that the girls in these marriages are much more likely to be kept in the abusive relationship and have more kids than average, kids who will become workers (E: with both parent and children being home schooled by their respective parent or "educated" by the church, making them more easy to manipulate and exploit).
It also serves christofascist white supremacy, which has manufactured racist nonsense like "the great replacement" theory to ensure fundamentalists only marry and reproduce within the group, ensuring its survival.
None of these things are bugs, they are features of these systems, and until as a society we confront that, we will never be able to tear them down and be free.
No, it's definitely you who are missing the point.
I don't feel bad for the tourists, I feel bad for the protestors, because they're wasting their time.
Because the people they need to be protesting don't give a shit about tourists getting wet either, they've already been paid for these tourists' visit, and millions more to come - because this isn't going to stop any future tourists either, precisely because being shot at with a water pistol is not a big deal.
This protest is having zero impact on the people the protestors need it to have an impact on, making it wholly ineffective.
The rich (and those licking their boots, even in these comments) would be well served to remember where the phrase "eat the rich" originates, and what the French (as should we all) do to those in power when they refuse to give up that power voluntarily.
I can understand the residents and where they're coming from, but protesting against the tourists themselves, people who have already made the trip and are there for a week or two before they fuck off home and who probably don't care and definitely have no control over local politics, rather than against the local owning class making all of the money off of the tourists and who encourage them to keep coming, and the authorities that they pay to enable them, seems like completely missing the point.
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Have you considered checking your privilege and/or remaining informed about current events even if you think they don't impact you personally (but definitely do, as well as everyone else around you)?
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/why-covid-can-never-be-just-a-cold